The primary objective of the training is to educate school staff and stakeholders about Rural Behavioral Health Institutes’ Screening Linked to Care (SLTC) Program. Presenters will provide education about STLC, data on effectiveness of the program, challenges, and successes of SLTC and talk about prevention and early intervention of mental health challenges for students. Presenters will talk about work states can do to support prevention and early intervention for mental health and suicide and how schools can sustainably implement screening and follow up care for students. Presenters will share challenges and successes schools have had with implementation and share about connecting students to supports and ongoing care.
Learning Objectives:
1) Learning about implementing universal digital mental health screening.
2) Identifying students struggling and connecting them to support.
3) Learning about the utilization of data to make decisions.
Janet Lindow, PhD & Kayleigh Brown
Janet Lindow, PhD champions the application of novel research approaches to identify, evaluate and implement preventive and acute treatments for diseases with great public health impact. For the past 12 years, her career goal has been to improve the health of populations with limited access to effective treatment with a primary focus now on those experiencing mental disorders.
Janet’s career path has given her a broad and deep understanding of public health issues and potential solutions. At MIT, she trained as a basic research scientist. After finishing her doctoral work, she taught a science course in Botswana which widened her understanding of health disparities and left her with a fervent desire to help improve the health of people globally. Janet then completed two post-doctoral fellowships, one focused on finding new antibiotics for Gram negative bacterial infections and the other building research programs to help prevent infections in people living in poverty. Next, the Yale School of Public Health recruited her to work full time in Brazil on leptospirosis, the world’s leading cause of hemorrhagic disease and to build research infrastructure. In 2016, Janet’s passion for finding solutions to difficult challenges in public health brought her to Montana where she was recruited as faculty at the Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery at Montana State University. At the Center, she and her mentor, Matt Byerly, MD, focused on suicide prevention across all age groups and digital treatments for depression and anxiety in rural areas where therapy was sparse or not available. She is currently a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical School. Janet lives in Livingston, Montana and is actively pursuing her work on suicide prevention, depression, and anxiety in Montana and Kansas.
Kayleigh Brown is dedicated to delivering and improving mental health care for kids. She has broad experience providing care and education to children, adolescents, young adults, and their families within and external to hospital settings.
Prior to joining the RBHI team, she spent the last decade working at Shodair Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit hospital offering inpatient and outpatient care to children and adolescents with serious mental illness in Montana. As the Shodair Director of Outpatient Services, Kayleigh helped to develop and lead one of the largest outpatient clinic systems serving Montana children and families. She has trained staff in trauma-informed care that focuses on organizational culture and the vicarious trauma that people can experience when working in complex care settings. Kayleigh has also been involved in co-facilitating Dare to Lead training with a Certified Dare to Lead instructor throughout Montana. She is passionate about improving mental health care, educating others about caring for people with a mental health diagnosis, helping families navigate the mental health care system, and increasing access to care, particularly among children and adolescents.
